Government promises to protect high street

Planning minister Iain Wright has promised to protect high street retailers with changes to planning laws that will ‘promote competition and improve consumer choice’.

Mark Jansen, Property Week - 27 March 2008

Speaking in the House of Commons yesterday, Wright said the government will soon publish a revised version of PPS6, the planning policy for town centres. ‘Small independent retailers remain at the heart of our vision for town centres,’ he said.

The new PPS6 will replace the existing need and impact tests with a new impact test for retail developments which Wright claimed will ‘enable local authorities to assess more effectively the impact of out-of-town development proposals on town centres’ - full article